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	Expendable launch system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most satellites are launched using expendable launchers; they are perceived as having a low risk of mission failure, a short time to launch and a relatively low cost.
		Many see it as unfortunate that most "modern" orbital expendables are derived from ballistic missiles, as these missiles were built to Cold War specs and with Cold War budgets, and argue that this makes for horrendously expensive launch vehicles.
		Expendable launch systems typically consist of stages which are discarded one by one, in order not to have to carry and accelerate parts that are no longer needed, see staging and multistage rocket, as opposed to the as-yet theoretical single stage to orbit system.
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	Expendable launch system at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Most expendable launchers are derivatives of 1950s-era ballistic missiles.
		Many see it as unfortunate that most "modern" expendables are derived from ballistic missiles, as these missiles were built to Cold War specs and with Cold War budgets, and argue that this makes for horrendously expensive launch vehicles.
		However, there is no reason in principle why an expendable single stage to orbit system might not also be possible; it is just generally more efficient to use staging when the system is not meant to be recovered intact.
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	They Were Expendable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, They Were Expendable was important to the development of the World War II combat film genre, as its historical authenticity and realistic presentation helped show audiences the sacrifices and hardships endured by the fighting men of the United States.
		This is the story of a small group of Americans fighting to delay the Japanese advance on Pacific islands, especially the Philippines in 1941.
		They Were Expendable is set in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and is based on W. White's book by the same title.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jwasia/reviews/expendableCH.html (1069 words)

	Ash Tree: They Were Expendable
		This perceived expendability could be used as a means for justifying war.
		In my most paranoid fantasies, I think the Republicans have a long term plan to break down the mind and the planet, so that everything is expendable when it comes time to bring about the apocalypse.
		Believe it or not it shows a faith in the human race that there should be some kind of massive conspiracy.
	hbaum.blogspot.com /2004/09/they-were-expendable.html (833 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of They Were Expendable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bulkeley’s fictional alter-ego in ‘Expendable,’ Lt. John Brickley (Robert Montgomery), is having trouble getting his superior officers to see the military value of his new PT craft.
		Indeed, by the end, ‘They Were Expendable’ is in some sense a movie about survivor guilt; the characters are more comfortable facing their own deaths than heading home, as comrades will surely die in their places.
		Although war and its effects are depicted much more cleanly here than they are these days -- we see virtually no blood or maiming, we hear no screams of agony -- the filmmakers credibly capture the attitudes of men trying to conceal their emotions as they go ever deeper into a terrifying situation.
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	: They Were Expendable - DVD film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They Were Expendable is the greatest American film of the Second World War, made by America's greatest director, John Ford, who himself saw action from the Battle of Midway through D-day.
		Or perhaps not so oddly: for as the matter-of-fact title implies, the film commemorates a period, from the eve of Pearl Harbor up to the impending fall of Bataan, when the Japanese conquest of the Pacific was in full cry and U.S. forces were fighting a desperate holding action.
		They Were Expendable, however, which was made when Allied victory was all but assured, is profoundly elegiac, with the patient grandeur of a tragic poem.
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	SwanShadow Thinks Out Loud: They were expendable
		The team was called the Expendables, because the United Nations staffed the missions with convicted felons (each of whom also happened to be a brilliant expert in some field of science) facing life in prison or death sentences.
		The leader of the Expendables was Captain James Conrad, an irascible cuss with one bionic arm and one bionic eye, who'd been kicked out of command duty in the Space Service in disgrace due to his violent tendencies.
		Conrad's faithful companions were Lieutenant Indira Smith, a woman from the Subcontinent with bionic legs and white hair (from the trauma that cost her the legs), and Dr. Kurt Kwango, a half-Nigerian, half-German ecologist who was both the brains and the muscle of the operation.
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	THEY WERE EXPENDABLE: A CRITIQUE OF JOHN FORD'S 1945 WAR FILM
		It is perhaps this dour subject and its release just after the end of the war that resulted in the critical and popular failure of the film.
		However, They Were Expendable was important to the development of the World War ll combat film genre, as it's historical authenticity and realistic presentation helped show audiences the sacrifices and hardships endured by the fighting men of the United States.
		Although the film THEY WERE EXPENDABLE is a recounting of the story of Bulkeley and Kelly as told to W. White, there were several historical inaccuracies.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/filmnotes/They_Were_Expendable.html (3817 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - They Were Expendable (1945)
		In John Ford's They Were Expendable, John Wayne's Lieutenant Rusty Ryan insists that the P-T boats, equipped with guns and torpedo tubes, could slip into the Japanese harbors.
		It was somehow anachronistic to see in late l945 a war picture that stresses the values of self-service and devotion to duty.
		They Were Expendable and other war films that followed demonstrated that "once the war was over, the war film tended to slide in social significance from a cause to a genre, from a statement of principle to a set of platitudes."
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	They Were Expendable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Not only is the film They Were Expendable (1945) a commentary on the war effort, it is also a depiction of women during the forties.
		But her role in Expendable is such that the viewer cannot help but realize that this is a different woman than seen in earlier films.
		Reed is no blushing, virginal, happy-ending nurse like "Brooke" in The Flying Tigers (1942): she is a sexy, world-weary woman doomed to a tragic end.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jwasia/reviews/expendableCR.html (521 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : They Were Expendable : Review
		A major work in the career of John Ford, They Were Expendable reflects the great director's love of the U.S. Navy and admiration of the men and women who fought the Second World War.
		Yet They Were Expendable is nevertheless an admirably restrained and somber work, especially compared to other jingoistic films of the period.
		They Were Expendable offers glimmers of the psychological complexity that marks later Ford films like The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/35134/review.jhtml (307 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Review - They Were Expendable
		He asked Ford, for example, to make changes in The Were Expendable, because he did not like the humiliatiion involved in the evacuation scene from Bataan.
		Thus, a new scene, in which he was willing to disobey orders and sneak off to a jungle guerrilla, until a superior officer orders him back aboard, was added.
		By contrast, he liked the scene in which he loathes leaving the battlefront, "I got business here," because it was congruent with the independent and rebellious streak in his screen persona.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=1503 (383 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Expendable
		For the few deemed imperfect in some way -- the disfigured, misfit or deformed -- becoming an ECM (Expendable Crew Member) is the only option.
		Slated to be front and center whenever any potential risk presents itself to the starship crew.
		Expendable serves up very convincing doses of the darker side of human nature against a background of enchanting beauty.
	www.sfsite.com /08b/exp15.htm (504 words)

	Savant Review: They Were Expendable
		Typical for Ford, he chose for his subject not some glorious victory or idealized combat, but instead, a thankless and losing struggle against an invader whose strength seemed at the time to be almost un-opposable.
		They Were Expendable starts at Pearl Harbor and traces the true story of an experimental Torpedo Boat unit run by Lt.
		One of the finest WWII films ever made, They Were Expendable is a quality DVD and a solid introduction to classic John Ford movies.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s154expendable.html (990 words)

	Expendable Launch System Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Expendable Launch System Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)
		Since this anticipated market demand did not materialize for the, Boeing pulled the Delta IV EELV from commercial service in 2003.
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	Amazon.com: They Were Expendable: DVD: Murray Alper,Leon Ames,Robert Barrat,Ward Bond,Donald Curtis,Alex Havier,Jack ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Ford's THEY WERE EXPENDABLE tells the story of the fledgling PT (patrol torpedo) boat branch of the US Navy and its valiant, and futile, defense of Manila immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
		Not that TWE doesn't hit a major note or two - the PT boat role as a fighting arm is established, battles are fought and boats are sunk.
		They were expendable is an excellent John Ford-directed story of the men who fought for recognition of the PT boat during WWII.
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	Amazon.co.uk: They Were Expendable [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When given the opportunity, however, Squadron Three does manage to sink several of the enemy's ships as the Japanese complete their conquest of the Philippines, eventually forcing the American forces to surrender.
		With regard to the film's title, not all of those involved with resisting the Japanese were expendable.
		This film has integrity in all respects, suggesting that although many of those whom it portrays may have been expendable, they are nonetheless admirable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RF9E (805 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: They Were Expendable
		Set in 1941 (and released in 1945, when the war was still going on!), we are treated to John Wayne's perfunctory performance as he ties up boats and unties them, then gets in a bunch of battles before having to tie up some more boats.
		Interminably long, the film is nearly unwatchable and offers nothing new in the way of war (or anti-war) commentary.
		Sure, the lowly PT boatmen weren't expendable, but their movie is.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/40a4c0234b2c298688256abe001ee4f3?OpenDocument (256 words)

	They Were Expendable : DVD & Movie Reviews :
		Special mention should be made of the visually arresting pictures of Director of Photographer Joseph H. August, which capture the excitement and terror of America's darkest hour.
		They Were Expendable is one of the best of Hollywood's war epics.
		Being produced at the end of the war by professionals who had served their country it avoids excessive jingoism and is closer to reality than earlier films.
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	Addendum to They Were Expendable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cross, here is additional information relating to the character of "Peggy" in William White's novel, "They Were Expendable," (1942) as subsequently used in John Ford's motion picture by the same name released by MGM in 1945.
		In conclusion, when I have been asked to represent the Army as an advisor to motion picture production companies filming on military installations or producing motion pictures involving Army support, there has been a consistent tension existing between accuracy and marketability.
		They Were Expendable: A Critique of John Ford's 1945 War Film by David M. Cross
	history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/They_Were_Expendable2.html (735 words)

	DVD.net : They Were Expendable - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DVD.net : They Were Expendable - DVD Review
		So they basically used untested equipment (and the men who were proud of that equipment) as cannon fodder.
		Based on actual men and events and using Navy and Army resources and cooperation, this movie is almost a paid service announcement for how great Navy life is (particularly if your outfit gets the honour of being named expendable!).
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2783 (751 words)

	They Were Expendable
		Robert Montgomery took over the direction of this film at the request of John Ford who had fractured his leg.
		It is in no wise depreciatory of Metro's "They Were Expendable" to say that if this film had been released last year--or the year before--it would have been a ringing smash.
		For then, while the war was still with us and the wave of victory was yet to break, the national impluse toward avengement, for which it cries out, would have been supremely stirred.
	www.earlofhollywood.com /TheyWereExpendable.html (592 words)

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		After the Chezwicks called it quits in 2000 and a break of about a year They Were Expendable formed in 2001 with Kurt Johnson - Guitar(
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		Based on the real life heroics of Lieutenants John Bulkeley (Brickley) and Robert Kelly (Ryan), the movie accurately depicts the defense of the Philippines by American PT Boats from December 1941 through April 1942 for which Lieutenant (later Vice Admiral) Bulkeley was awarded the Medal of Honor and Lieutenant Kelly the Navy Cross.
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	channel4.com/film - They Were Expendable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glossy and efficient war propaganda surrounding the heroic efforts of the men in torpedo boats who do their bit during the Second World War.
		But there is a darker side to They Were Expendable.
		Unusually for a war movie made during the actual conflict, it questions the way young men are used as cannon fodder.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=109224 (103 words)

	They Were Expendable (1945)
		You would think the title would usher up some movie about special forces units sent behind enemy lines to achieve the impossible in a high risk mission.
		I do not know if the ‘flicker’ problem is also present on the R1 release, but can find nothing to suggest that it is.
		They Were Expendable is a fairly good war movie for its time, but it is somewhat dated and does not really hold up all that well.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=3293&SID=2&PID=223650 (858 words)

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		The Space Shuttle is a reusable rocket-launched vehicle designed to transport people and cargo between Earth and orbiting spacecraft, and then to return to the Earth's surface by gliding down and landing on a runway.
		A Space Shuttle consists of a reusable delta-winged spaceplane, called an orbiter; two solid-propellant booster rockets, which are recovered and also reused; and an expendable tank containing liquid propellant for the orbiter.s three main engines.
		Only the orbiters have names, and an orbiter alone is not a full Space Shuttle.
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